Bob Quinn, writer, photographer, film-maker and television director, is a member of Aosdana and has lived in Connemara in the west of Ireland since 1970. He is author ofSit Down and Be Counted(1969);Smokey Hollow(1991), a fictional memoir;An Tir Aneol(1995), a photographic record of Connemara; andMaverick(2001), a critique of modern broadcasting.